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(12) e? ??? ?ste ?t? t??? µ?? ?d??ta?? ?? ?e??µe??? ????? p??? a?t???
??e????? te????s? ?a? ??????? t?? ?????? ?? d? p??? t??? ßas???a? ta??
d?µ?s?a?? ????as?? e??a?? ? ?at??a??. ??e? ??? t?? ???s?? ??te t???a
??µ??? f????µ?? ??te ?t? t??? t????ta? ?????p??? pa?ta?? d??peµpe?,
?ta ßas????? ?a???µ?????, ?a? p??ta ??e????? ????e?? ?p?t?epe, d???
f???ttes?a? t? ßas????? ?ta p??? µ????? t?? ???s?? p?at????,
µ? t? d?s?e??? ????s? ?a? ß?aße???.
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(12) For rest assured that, while words addressed to private persons pertain to those
men themselves and to few others, words addressed to kings are like public prayers
or imprecations. For that reason I believe the Persian king was especially unwise in
being accustomed to dispatch in all directions ordinary persons, King's Ears as they
were called, and to entrust them with the responsibility of listening to everything, it
being necessary to protect the real ears of the king much more carefully than the
golden plane-tree, to prevent their hearing anything disagreeable and harmful.
Trad. anglaise : J.W. COHOON - H. Lamar CROSBY, Dio Chrysostom.
Vol. IV. London, Heinemann, 1946
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